The Dragonflame

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Nov2014

PHP 5.3 - End of Life statistics

PHP 5.3 met its end-of-life in August 2014. It's been a good run for the most popular 5.x version (given by the several breaking changes introduced in PHP 5.4). How did the PHP 5.x universe looked a year ago? (using data from here as well as this presentation)

Version

September 2013 (%)

November 2014 (%)

5.0

0.1 %

0.1 %

5.1

2.2 %

1.3 %

5.2

40.2 %

21.4 %

5.3

51.7 %

46.9 %

5.4

5.7 %

25.1 %

5.5

0.1 %

5.1 %

5.6

-

0.2 %

5.7

-

< 0.1 %

Conclusion? The much-delayed upgrade effort towards PHP 5.4 is well underway. The 5.3 market share previously fell by less than 2% for previous year but in the current year it fell by almost 5% while the adoption of PHP 5.4 has increased nearly 5 times.

Still, PHP 5.3 is deeply entrenched in its market share as the dominant version, something that will probably endure over the next year as both 5.2 and 5.3 sites slowly migrate.